Mine has to be cop procederals and paper money.
A)I just like solving mysteries and problems and have a natural deference to authority figures, so I’ve watched way too many cop shows. The only one I’m not ashamed to name is The Wire, which is really good and probably is the only one with genuine substance.
B)It’s not the concept of money I enjoy, i just like having a physical thing I exchange to get another physical thing. I…“dislike” per se, using numbers on a screen to get food or something.
I really enjoy expensive liquor and going to fancy restaurants, even better if I can have some expensive liquor at a fancy restaurant.
yeah so fair. some nice shit is complete garbage but some is actually really nice
Nothing wrong with watching copaganda, but paper money is an unacceptable degree of bourgeois decadence. I only ever pay for shit with quarters and dimes. Anything higher than that is reactionary and liberal.
rockin up to the gocey store cash register w/ rolls of pennies weighing down my pockets like the monopoly guy
Check-out clerks always give me these dirty looks, but it’s nothing compared to what I get from my landlord.
Technically paper/metal money is legal tender and businesses are obligated to accept it at least up to a certain amount. So yes you could pay your landlord in literal pennies.
is studying and following geopolitics bourgeois? because i guess i am guilty
Education is bourgeois actually, sorry
I live and breathe video games, and I like cop and superhero-related movies and series.
I also get how you feel about money.
diet coke
Energy drinks. Sugar free of course.
0 calorie sweeteners are definitely bourgeois
Rap music
Here’s a Kenyan communist rap song right here: https://youtu.be/7qHtZbMp0pg
To expand on your comment, that entire fuckin album is a banger, as are most of his albums.
I don’t see why paper money would be bourgeois. Sure, in a socialist society i see no issue doing away with physical cash, and in fact it can help suppress black market and criminal activity, which are undesirable as they re-create bourgeois mentality and carry seeds of capitalist restoration.
But as long as we live under capitalism and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, digital transactions are dangerous since they allow the bourgeois state to track you and your activities, making physical money actually a necessity for revolutionaries once the phase of active underground resistance is entered.
Context is everything, and imo in our context paper money is not necessarily bourgeois, and it has the potential to be revolutionary.
In China you see Xi pay with cash during visits bc has to promote the use of paper cash again as many stores completely stopped accepting it in favor of alipay and other digital methods lol. But yeah, money is money. Its commodity status is the same in capitalism whether that money is paper or digital.
In China you see Xi pay with cash during visits bc has to promote the use of paper cash again
Really? Is this still happening? Do you think they want to try to bring back the use of cash? At this point the transition to digital payments seems to be so comprehensive and have penetrated so deep into the society in China that it appears to me almost impossible to reverse.
Cash is still legal tender that shops are obligated to accept, I assume millions of people in China still don’t have access to digital payment options. Though I remember seeing a grandma on the way to the highest village in China carrying an alipay QR code lol. She sells water bottles to travelers on the way up.
I know cash still technically has to be accepted, and i’ve never been to China myself, but in all the travel videos i’ve watched you just don’t really see it anymore at all, even in some of the most remote, rural locations.
I think the one occasion i do see cash being exchanged is as a gift on special occasions and celebrations. And of course when tourists use it.
Again, this is just from what i can see in videos that people share from China, i would be very curious to hear from someone who lives there how much cash is still used.
My partner works in the art industry so by default we have a lot of artsy friends and a lot of them live in these incredibly beautiful historical appartments in the middle of the city. We hang around there often and it is always a bit decadent. Classical music, champagne, nice clothes, etc. Through networking we (and they) also know a lot of people higher up. Politicians, business owners, whatever. We sometimes see them around and hang out with them.
Apart from that I also frequent hipster soy milk coffee bars and stuff.
I’m basically a huge hipster soyboy guy coming straight out of an Instagram influencer page except I’m a communist. I didn’t grow up like this for what it’s worth. So it always amazes me a world like this exists.
Nutella, stuff is basically imperialism destilled.
Try making your own! It’s much better without the nasty palm oil they drown it in
For me… Prob coffee, chocolate, tea, and bananas.
I enjoy strategy games, and yes, that includes paradox titles (if you know, you know). Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis etc. I think they’re well designed games, apart from the recent releases, but the fanbase and some of the ideological fantasy, it’s… not great.
whats the deal with paradox in specific?
Their player base is full of outright Nazis.
there are only two kinds of hoi4 players; one is a communist, the other is a nazi
cash is not exactly bourgeois
Next you’ll tell me bed times isn’t fascism
I also prefer cash but its because I am ADHD and the number aren’t real to me unless I can hold them and watch the stack lower
I’m the exact opposite lol. I also have ADHD, but to me, the number I see in my bank account is the amount of money I have, and when I end up with some cash and use it, it feels like it was free because the number in my bank account didn’t go down.
I like currency in general as a public art piece. We don’t live up to the potential though.
You can argue that the most successful sculptor in history was Victor D. Brenner, who got his boring-ass profile of Lincoln reproduced several hundred billion times since 1909.
